Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Beeston has less crime per resident than 96% of UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more
Shoplifting: police recorded 894 in Beeston in the 12 months to August 2026, 17.1 per 1,000 residents against 10.3 in a typical town its size. Recorded violence rose 15% in a year. Weighing it all, Beeston earns C+ for safety (#21 of 49 in Nottinghamshire), with close to the middle of UK towns, on crimes police recorded inside its built-up area over September 2023 to August 2026. Police counts work out at 24.6 violent and sexual offences and 11.4 incidents of burglary, vehicle crime and damage per 1,000 residents annually.
Crimes and reports per 1,000 residents (Census 2021) a year, September 2023 to August 2026.
What stands out about safety in Beeston
Violent crime rose over the year
In the 12 months to August 2026 police recorded 15% more violent crime per resident in Beeston than in the year before; across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more violent crime held steady. Burglary, vehicle crime and criminal damage rose 31% (towns its size: held steady). Trend ↓
Less crime than most places its size
Of 121 UK towns and cities of 37,000 to 71,000 people, Beeston has the 13th lowest rate of graded crime: lower than Lytham St Anne's, Kingswinford and Bicester, higher than Lisburn, Carlton and Bebington. Towns its size ↓
Many neighbourhoods rank low for crime nationally
The government’s Indices of Deprivation 2025 rank every neighbourhood in England on recorded crime. 24% of Beeston’s residents live in one of the lowest-crime 10%, and 6% in one of the highest-crime 20%. Neighbourhood ranks ↓
Written from the police.uk and government data on this page. Figures are crimes police recorded, not convictions.
What’s behind Beeston’s grade
A firm grade. Built on 5,642 graded crimes over three years. The grade adds violent and sexual offences and crimes against homes and vehicles per resident and ranks Beeston against every UK town of 1,000 or more.
Per resident, against all UK towns; beside it, how it compares with towns its size.
Beeston is 13th of 121 UK towns of 37,000 to 71,000
| # | Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Shops & theft | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Metropolitan Castlereagh Lisburn and Castlereagh | 58,763 | 14.8 | 6.6 | 7.1 | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 10 | Lisburn Lisburn and Castlereagh | 51,447 | 22.9 | 9.6 | 11.6 | B− |
| 11 | Carlton Nottinghamshire | 53,555 | 23.2 | 9.4 | 13 | B− |
| 12 | Bebington Merseyside | 57,607 | 25.6 | 8.3 | 8.7 | B− |
| 13 | Beeston Nottinghamshire | 52,359 | 24.6 | 11.4 | 22.1 | C+ |
| 14 | Horsham West Sussex | 50,211 | 25.6 | 10.8 | 17.8 | C+ |
| 15 | Leighton Buzzard Bedfordshire | 42,736 | 23.4 | 13.1 | 12.2 | C+ |
| 16 | Arnold Nottinghamshire | 40,016 | 26.6 | 10.1 | 12.2 | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 74 | Worksop Nottinghamshire | 43,435 | 40.2 | 20.9 | 32.9 | D |
| … | ||||||
| 108 | Mansfield Nottinghamshire | 63,448 | 56.4 | 22.2 | 33.5 | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 121 | Bridgwater Somerset | 47,846 | 76.8 | 18.9 | 29.3 | D− |
Safety letters rank against every UK town of 1,000 or more; the order here is context only.
Graded crime per 1,000 residents a year, September 2023 to August 2026, counting from the least: towns ranked near Beeston, and others in Nottinghamshire.
What police recorded in the last 12 months
Against the typical town its size, Beeston runs highest on shoplifting (17.1 per 1,000 against 10.3), bicycle theft (1.5 per 1,000 against 0.9) and other crime (2.8 per 1,000 against 2.1). Public order and drugs sit below it.
Show as a table
| Category | In the grade | Reports | Per 1,000 | Typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offences | Violent | 1,321 | 25.2 | 38.6 |
| Shoplifting | not graded | 894 | 17.1 | 10.3 |
| Anti-social behaviour | not graded | 710 | 13.6 | 17.5 |
| Criminal damage & arson | Home & vehicle | 308 | 5.9 | 7.5 |
| Other theft | not graded | 249 | 4.8 | 6.6 |
| Public order | not graded | 247 | 4.7 | 7.4 |
| Vehicle crime | Home & vehicle | 180 | 3.4 | 4.9 |
| Burglary | Home & vehicle | 176 | 3.4 | 3.4 |
| Other crime | not graded | 146 | 2.8 | 2.1 |
| Drugs | not graded | 86 | 1.6 | 3.8 |
| Robbery | Violent | 83 | 1.6 | 1.4 |
| Bicycle theft | not graded | 76 | 1.5 | 0.9 |
| Possession of weapons | Violent | 50 | 1 | 1.1 |
| Theft from the person | not graded | 31 | 0.6 | 0.7 |
“Violent” is police.uk’s violence and sexual offences (which includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury), robbery and possession of weapons. Anti-social behaviour isn’t a crime category; shoplifting and other theft happen mostly in shops and town centres rather than to residents, so neither counts in the grade.
September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 residents. The tick on each bar is the typical (median) town among UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
How crime in Beeston has moved
“Towns its size” pools all UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more that police.uk covers each month (Greater Manchester has no data).
Rolling three-month rate, per 1,000 residents a year. In the 12 months to August 2026 against the 12 before: violent +15% (towns its size +2%), homes and vehicles +31% (towns its size -5%), shoplifting and theft +11% (towns its size -3%), anti-social behaviour -6% (towns its size -2%).
1 in 4 Beeston residents lives in one of England’s lowest-crime neighbourhoods
58% of residents live in the lowest-crime 30% of England’s neighbourhoods, and 6% in the highest-crime 20%. The crime domain scores the risk of violence, burglary, theft and criminal damage where people live, so it can read differently from the town-wide rate, which counts crimes where they happened.
Beeston’s residents by the crime decile of their neighbourhood (LSOA, about 1,500 people) in the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (crime domain), where 1 is the highest-crime 10% of England’s neighbourhoods and 10 the lowest.
Police in Beeston identify a suspect less often than across UK towns
No suspect was identified for 75% of Beeston’s burglaries, vehicle crimes and criminal damage, against 69% across UK towns, and for 18% of violent and sexual offences against 19%. Most violent cases close as “unable to prosecute” (62% here), usually because the victim doesn’t support a prosecution. About 8% of violent and 6% of household crimes reached court.
The latest outcome police.uk shows for each crime recorded in the first of the three years (September 2023 to August 2024), so most cases have closed. 1,757 crimes.
Lowest recorded crime in Toton & Chilwell Meadows, Bramcote and Attenborough & Chilwell East; highest in Beeston West
| Ward | Residents | Violent | Homes & vehicles | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Toton & Chilwell Meadows | 8,059 | 15.6 | 6.9 | |
| Bramcote | 6,557 | 15.5 | 8.2 | |
| Attenborough & Chilwell East | 7,120 | 16.4 | 8.2 | |
| Chilwell West | 7,592 | 31.1 | 8.9 | |
| Beeston North | 6,099 | 27.4 | 12.8 | |
| Beeston Central | 6,192 | 28.8 | 18.3 | |
| Beeston Rylands | 4,779 | 31.5 | 16.3 | |
| Beeston West | 5,551 | 33.3 | 14.6 |
| At or near | Reports | Mostly |
|---|---|---|
| Supermarkets | 1,912 | 70% shoplifting & theft |
| Car parks | 450 | 38% shoplifting & theft |
| Petrol stations | 271 | 54% shoplifting & theft |
| Shopping areas | 134 | 34% shoplifting & theft |
| College and university buildings | 40 | 45% violent |
| Parks and open spaces | 39 | 56% violent |
| Police stations | 31 | 35% drugs, public order & other |
A ward’s rate counts crimes where they happened, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at an anonymous map point; some are named for the kind of place (a supermarket, a car park), and each row adds up every place of that kind in Beeston. We show only these, never streets or homes.
Crimes per 1,000 residents a year by council ward (the part of each ward inside Beeston’s built-up area), September 2023 to August 2026. Beside it, the public places police.uk named most often.
Crime in Beeston per 1,000 residents
A crime isn’t a victim: one person can report several, and crimes in a town centre often involve visitors rather than residents.
And about 13 burglaries, vehicle crimes or acts of criminal damage, plus 24 shoplifting and theft reports, in the 12 months to August 2026. Each dot is one resident; each coloured dot is one recorded crime.
Eight people died in collisions on Beeston’s roads in 2021–2025
Police recorded 249 collisions with injuries inside Beeston in five years, in which eight people died (2 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist). 56 people were killed or seriously injured: 20 on foot and 15 on a bicycle.
That is more than is typical for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more: at their median rate (1.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Beeston’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Beeston’s own rate (3.1) is context, not a ranking.
Counting serious injuries too, Beeston had 21.6 people killed or seriously injured per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more (30.3). 36% of them were on foot, against 31% across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more.
Casualties are counted where the collision happened, not where people lived: a main road through town adds through-traffic, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Seriously injured uses the Department for Transport’s adjusted figures, which even out the police forces’ different ways of recording injuries. There’s no national rate here: more than half of road deaths in England and Wales (58%) happen outside every town’s built-up area. Source: DfT road casualty statistics (STATS19), 2021–2025.
Collisions police recorded inside Beeston’s built-up area, 2021–2025. Described here; not part of the Safety Grade.
Crime in the places around Beeston
| Town | People | Violent | Homes & vehicles | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beeston | 52,359 | 24.6 | 11.4 | C+ |
| Stapleford | 15,041 | 37.2 | 13.9 | C− |
| Clifton | 22,936 | 43.7 | 18.5 | D |
| Trowell | 2,165 | 13.6 | 7.2 | A− |
| Sandiacre | 9,373 | 33.1 | 9.1 | C |
| Wilford | 4,849 | 19.3 | 11.6 | B− |
| Long Eaton | 37,815 | 37.6 | 12.1 | C− |
| Ruddington | 7,491 | 23 | 11.6 | B− |
Beeston records more graded crime per resident than 3 of its 7 neighbours. Trowell, 2.5 miles away, records 13.6 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 residents a year (3-year average), against Beeston’s 24.6.
Per 1,000 residents a year, the same three years. Tap a town for its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Where crimes happen, not where victims live. police.uk places each crime at a point near where it happened. Town centres with shops, stations, a hospital and nightlife record more crime per resident, and residents of nearby villages who come in to shop or go out are part of that count.
- Bigger towns record more per resident. Across UK towns, recorded crime per resident rises steeply with size, more than in the U.S., so a city’s grade sits low against the whole UK. The “towns its size” figures show where Beeston sits among towns like it; they are context and don’t change the grade.
- Points are approximate. police.uk moves each point to the nearest of a set of anonymous map points, so crimes near the edge of the built-up area can fall either side of it.
Questions about safety in Beeston
Is Beeston safe?
Police recorded 24.6 violent and sexual offences and 11.4 burglaries, vehicle crimes and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year over the three years to August 2026 (police.uk, inside Beeston’s built-up area). That earns a C+ for safety: less crime per resident than 43% of UK towns. Among 121 UK towns of 37,000 to 71,000 people, Beeston is 13th from the least crime. 24% of residents live in neighbourhoods in England’s lowest-crime 10%.
What are the safest areas of Beeston?
By council ward, Toton & Chilwell Meadows, Bramcote and Attenborough & Chilwell East record the least violent and household crime per resident: 15.6, 15.5 and 16.4 violent and sexual offences per 1,000 a year (3-year average), against 33.3 in Beeston West.
Is crime going up in Beeston?
In the 12 months to August 2026, against the 12 months before, violent crime rose 15%, burglary, vehicle crime and damage rose 31%, shoplifting and theft rose 11% and anti-social behaviour fell 6%. Across UK towns and cities of 50,000 or more, violent crime held steady.
What is the most common crime in Beeston?
Violence & sexual offences: 1,321 in the 12 months to August 2026, which in police.uk includes harassment, stalking and assault without injury. Next came shoplifting (894) and criminal damage & arson (308), with 710 reports of anti-social behaviour.
How does Beeston compare with Nottingham?
Nottingham records 53.3 violent and sexual offences and 23.3 crimes against homes and vehicles per 1,000 residents a year, against Beeston’s 24.6 and 11.4, over the same three years.
Sources: data.police.uk street-level crime, 36 months to August 2026, points inside the built-up-area boundary · ONS Census 2021, output areas summed to the ONS 2022 built-up area · MHCLG English Indices of Deprivation 2025, crime domain by LSOA (residents from ONS Census 2021) · Department for Transport road casualty statistics (STATS19), collisions 2021–2025, points inside the built-up-area boundary · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only. All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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